Additional Notes:The HRT will continues its season with a new adaptation of the holiday classic by Charles Dickens, A CHRISTMAS CAROL set in contemporary Harlem. With the combination of a fanciful new updated adaptation, charming puppets and a score that includes many of your favorite Christmas carols and holiday songs, A HARLEM CHRISTMAS CAROL is sure to delight audiences of all ages.

Bread and Puppet Theater's The Whatforward Circus (Week 1)Bread and Puppet makes its annual pilgrimage to New York with The Whatforward Circus, in which a group of stone-age technology puppeteers, brass players, and percussionists check out the prominent forwardmoving passions and politics of our capitalist culture, and make real and unreal against-the-grain proposals to identify and fight the anonymous monster, the big fat Wrong; complete with Mongolian hordes, singing toilets and stilted flying businessmen!

Additional Notes:“THE BEST JAZZ SHOW IN TOWN” is back by popular demand at the Mizner Park Cultural Arts Center!

The Django Festival All-Stars carry on the legacy of the great great ‘gypsy guitarist DJANGO REINHARDT – HOT JAZZ at its best!

Its star, DORADO SCHMITT, from the Lorraine region of France, is a gypsy legend in the true style of DJANGO. Joining DORADO is LUDOVIC BEIER from France – who was written about by Downbeat, after his appearance at The Newport Jazz Festival, “BEIER played as great a solo on his accordina as Toots Thielemans at his zenith.” PIERRE BLANCHARD on Violin is a sensation. On rhythm, gypsy great FRANCKO MEHRSTEIN, and XAVIER NIKI – all from France. And, joining the band on this major tour is DORADOS young son, AMATI SCHMITT, now 20, a virtuoso and rising star!

The band grew out of the very successful DJANGO REINHARDT FESTIVAL, going into its 16th successful year in America, with its home at Birdland and major tours across the country – and has been hailed by LEONARDO DICAPRIO as being made up of some of the greatest musicians in the world!

HOT JAZZ harkens back to the 30s and 40s in Europe, where DJANGO teamed with top Jazz Violinist, STEPHANE GRAPPELLI, to create The HOT CLUB QUINTETTE of France…the greatest musical partnership in European history Jazz history. The ALL-STARS follow in their footsteps, taking the music beyond with original compositions, hip improvisations, and some of Djangos lasting greats.

This ‘hot-swing form of jazz has its roots in American popular music and in the reverence for Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and other top American jazz figures. They swing like crazy and will break your heart with a ballad. Each of them are composers and while this music can harken back to the great music of the past, their interpretations, arrangements, virtuosity, and original compositions bring a newness to Djangos style and take it beyond. The Producers call it HIP HOT!

Harry Connick Jr.'s The Happy ElfThe Happy Elf follows Eubie, the happiest elf at the North Pole. More than anything else, Eubie longs to be a part of Santa's sleigh team. Instead, he's stuck checking the naughty-or-nice lists. Then, one Christmas Eve, he sees something strange: in the whole town of Bluesville, not a single person has been nice. With a pinch of elfish magic and a magical whoosh, Eubie's off to Bluesville. But can he turn a whole town of naughty children nice in just one day?

Additional Notes:A new musical comedy by the Grammy Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated composer and lyricist, Harry Connick, Jr.'s The Happy Elf tells the tale of Eubie the Elf, a lovable fellow who wants to spread Christmas joy throughout the town of Bluesville. Hoping to introduce a new generation of children to the joys of jazz, Connick has crafted a musical landscape against which Eubie's story unfolds.The Happy Elf follows Eubie, the happiest elf at the North Pole. More than anything else, Eubie longs to be a part of Santa's sleigh team. Instead, he's stuck checking the naughty-or-nice lists. Then, one Christmas Eve, he sees something strange: in the whole town of Bluesville, not a single person has been nice. With a pinch of elfish magic and a magical whoosh, Eubie's off to Bluesville. But can he turn a whole town of naughty children nice in just one day?Families will love this festive tale of overcoming adversity, friendship, the power of positivity and believing in yourself! The Happy Elf is destined to become a holiday classic.

Lady of The CastleThe evening of opera begins with a 20-minute curtain raiser, Seymour Barabs raucous, off-color opera vaudeville From Oy to Vey. Following this curtain raiser is Lady of The Castle, a ghostly post-Holocaust chamber opera based on a true story and an Israeli play by Lea Goldberg with music and lyrics by Mira J. Spektor. Lissa Moira directs a cast of five, including Darcy Dunn, Douglas McDonnell, James Parks, Bennett Pologe, and Amanda Yachechak. Performances will be staged at the Cino Theatre at Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue (bet. 9th and 10th Streets), New York, NY 10003 from November 30-December 11, 2016.

Additional Notes:From Oy to Vey is a 20-minute raucous off-color opera vaudeville curtain raiser of five select pieces from the larger work by Seymour Barab. Lady of The Castle is set in 1947 after the Holocaust. Is there a young Jewish girl still hidden in the old castle? Based on a true story and Lea Goldbergs Israeli play, Lady of the Castle is a chamber opera about illusion, reality, love, betrayal, death and hope. Originally commissioned and presented by Theater for the New City in 1982, Lady of The Castle has enjoyed over ten productions internationally. It has been staged in New York off-Broadway and at the JCC, on Long Island and in Massachusetts, in Berlin with support of the Anne Frank Foundation, and in London at Saint Giles Cripplegate Church in the Barbican Center as part of the Festival of Austrian Jewish Culture - produced with the artistic supervision of conductor David Josefowitz. The London concert version is available on Original Cast Recordings. A three-piece chamber orchestra includes, Piano: Jesse Lozano; Flute: Michael Laderman; and Cello: Vivian Penham. From Oy to Vey and Lady of The Castle are presented by Theater for the New City and The After Dinner Opera Company; Director: Lissa Moira; Musical Director: Jesse Lozano; Choreographer: Amanda Yachachak; Sets and Costume Designer: Lytza Colon; Lighting Designer: Alex Bartenieff. Tickets are $18 and can be purchased by visiting XX. 10 performances will be staged from November 30-December 10 on the following schedule: Wednesday-Saturday at 8pm & Sunday at 3pm. About Seymour Barab (playwright/composer for From Oy to Vey) - His proclivity for musical theatre has made his operas performed often, especially his comic one-acts and those for young audiences. According to Central Opera Service, during the 1988-89 season, he was the most performed composer of opera in America. His fellow composer, Miriam Gideon, called him “the Rossini of our time.” His Little Red Riding Hood was the first American opera performed in

Additional Notes:Little Shop of Horrors is a horror comedy rock musical, by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman, about a hapless florist shop worker who raises a plant that feeds on human blood and flesh. The musical is based on the low-budget 1960 black comedy film The Little Shop of Horrors, directed by Roger Corman. The music, composed by Menken in the style of early 1960s rock and roll, doo-wop and early Motown, includes several well-known tunes, including the title song, Skid Row (Downtown), Somewhere That's Green, and Suddenly, Seymour.The musical premiered Off-Off-Broadway in 1982 before moving to the Orpheum Theatre Off-Broadway, where it had a five-year run. It later received numerous productions in the U.S. and abroad, and a subsequent Broadway production. Because of its small cast and relatively simple orchestrations, it has become popular with community theatre, school and other amateur groups.[1] The musical was also made into a 1986 film of the same name, directed by Frank Oz.

Men in TowelsMen in Towels is a walk through/sit down multimedia performance piece that puts you at a notorious NYC bath house in 1971. A Pride NYC Event.

Additional Notes:1971 NYC Bette Midler is on the tiny stage making yet another farewell appearance. Men in Towels. Everywhere. The sexual revolution is in full swing. Oh God, please dont let this ever end......Ever wonder what it was like? Part musical theater event/part art exhibition. Created by Michelangelo Alasa' who also wrote the long running Confessions of a Cuban Sex Addict. Music by Bronwen Jones. Featuring Michelangelo Alasa', Aaron Lee Battle, Liam Lyons-Shields, Luis Ramos, Facundo Rodriguez, Jonathan Forte.Not appropriate for anyone under 18 years old

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